Кључне речи: Пекић, Време чуда, Еванђеље, Христ, Соловјев, Берђајев, Булгаков, ап- сурд, слобода, судбина. Keywords: Pekic, The Time of Miracles, Gospel, Christ, Solovyev, Bulgakov, absurd, freedom, fate Aleksandra R. Popi Попин, Александра Р. Еванђелска чуда, спасење и (не)могућност слободе избора Evangelic Miracles, salvation and the (im)possibility of freedom of Choice СРПСКИ ЈЕЗИК, КЊИЖЕВНОСТ, УМЕТНОСТ Зборник радова са VI међународног научног скупа одржаног на Филолошко-уметничком факултету у Крагујевцу (28–29. X 2011) Књига II БОГ All rights reserved application/pdf 2063995 bytes 2012 info:eu-repo/semantics/article https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:30167 srp Sažetak: Рад се бави анализом транспонованих еванђелских чуда у роману Време чуда Б. Пе- кића. Анализа обухвата мотивацију извршавања чудотворења као и последице по људе над којима су извршена. Такође, бавимо се и ставом аутора о (не)могућности слободе из- бора, као и судбини и апсурду у истом контексту. У раду је укратко и успостављена гене- за ставова аутора о поменутим проблемима. Abstract: In Pekic's novel The Time of Miracles, Christ is presented as an utter opposite of his religious essence. Miracles that he performs belong to the group which S. Bulgakov denotes as false. Christ's whole nature is minimized to the phenomenon of miracle-working, representing just a mere performance of magic to enable the victory of dogmas and the replacement of the old system by a new one. In this work, Christ is like an office worker who makes miracles on written request. What is insisted on in most miracles is the total ban of freedom of choice of the one who receives the miracle-working. As a result, it appears that individuals ought to be sacrificed for the sake of the system On the grounds of the writer's statements in interviews it is obvious that the aim of his work is to present the time and political regime he lived using Aesopian language of a kind; however, the meaning of the work itself must not be reduced to that alone. The writer's diary (1955-1959) documents on the problematic issue of human freedom at it is, as well as on confrontation with any kind of system forced on individuals in order to reduce their freedom. Baring in mind that Pekic read Solovyov and Berdyaev, it is believed that the writer was not against Christianity as religion, but against theocracy, which reduced freedom guaranteed by Christianity. For a more accurate interpretation of The Time of Miracles, an abstract from the writers diary (1959) entitled ”The prolegomenon to a new definition of the 'absurd'” has be taken into account, since the consideration of Judas leads to a stance on the freedom of man in general – freedom is purposeful only when it coincides with fate, and it is therefore that every possibility of free choice is missing. Finally, it is possible to say that the purpose of Pekic's novel The Time of Miracles is to witness about a time, but it also raises the subject of the absurd, of freedom and fate.